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Coping with not liking difficult child...peers shying away, what do we do...
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<blockquote data-quote="Dixies_fire" data-source="post: 598204" data-attributes="member: 16184"><p>I have been there. Listening to my oldest start a fight as soon as she walks through the door and keeping it going until she goes to sleep is sometimes more then I can bear. I sometimes feel very fortunate that my difficult child is pretty respectful of me if not anyone else in the house because it would drive me insane for a kid to talk to me like that. </p><p>We often have issues when we do things that I personally think my difficult child Should be happy about and isn't, like going to the park or cooking out.</p><p>Sometimes the smaller things are the things she enjoys, reading a shell Silverstein book a few poems at a time. Talking about when she was little or when she was born. Telling her she made me a mom so she is special. I probably don't so these things enough but I have used them just because I had to remind myself she's my kid and why I love her, even if I can't stand the attitude and the yelling, screaming and pushing, especially with everything else that has been going on. </p><p></p><p>I didn't see this earlier but I think what you did was great and anything you can do to show some approval will help the way you feel and the way he feels I truly believe. My difficult child is incredibly observant if I smile at her she notices, if I laugh she notices. I'm sorry that you are cursed with this at 5 yrs old, I'm sure that must be very difficult.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dixies_fire, post: 598204, member: 16184"] I have been there. Listening to my oldest start a fight as soon as she walks through the door and keeping it going until she goes to sleep is sometimes more then I can bear. I sometimes feel very fortunate that my difficult child is pretty respectful of me if not anyone else in the house because it would drive me insane for a kid to talk to me like that. We often have issues when we do things that I personally think my difficult child Should be happy about and isn't, like going to the park or cooking out. Sometimes the smaller things are the things she enjoys, reading a shell Silverstein book a few poems at a time. Talking about when she was little or when she was born. Telling her she made me a mom so she is special. I probably don't so these things enough but I have used them just because I had to remind myself she's my kid and why I love her, even if I can't stand the attitude and the yelling, screaming and pushing, especially with everything else that has been going on. I didn't see this earlier but I think what you did was great and anything you can do to show some approval will help the way you feel and the way he feels I truly believe. My difficult child is incredibly observant if I smile at her she notices, if I laugh she notices. I'm sorry that you are cursed with this at 5 yrs old, I'm sure that must be very difficult. [/QUOTE]
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